load balancing question

[René Nieuwenhuizen]

Richard Sharpe wrote:

>On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, John E. Malmberg wrote:
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>>Javid Abdul-AJAVID1 wrote:
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>>>MSDFS is filey system right, how will it help to load balance samba
>>>connections
>>>what criteria does it rely to load balance ( like memory, or no of
>>>connetions etc.. )
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>>MSDFS does not really load balance.  MSDFS distributes the 
>>subdirectories of a directory between multiple servers transparently to 
>>the clients.
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>Well, my suggestion was that MSDFS be modified to return referrals to 
>different machines that each provide access to the same distributed file 
>system, and that these referals be rotated in a round robin fashion. At 
>least, that is what we will be doing.
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Wouldn't it be easy to run a script on the msdfs-root that monitors the 
load on different machines and that recreates the referrals based on 
this load.

René Nieuwenhuizen
Sysadmin
CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis